Inez Mae Franklin Inez Mae Franklin, 97, of Port Arthur passed away Saturday, February 4, 2012 at Harbor Hospice in Beaumont, Texas. She was born January 20, 1915 in Anacoco, Louisiana to N.J. Bivens and Mable Wright Bivens. Inez had lived in Port Arthur since 1933 and was a member of the United Methodist Temple since 1935. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Wednesday, February 8, 2012 at Levingston Funeral Home in Groves with Chaplain Eddie Tubbs officiating. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park. A visitation for family and friends will be Tuesday evening from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Inez was preceded in death by her husband, Raleigh Franklin, two sisters, Jewell Carruth and Ruth Miller, and brother, Bruce Bivens. She is survived by two daughters, Susan Corgey and husband, Donald of Beaumont, Tx., and Gloria Powell and husband, Homer of Deer Park, Tx., her very special guardian angel and care giver, Dianne McNeil, sister, Eloice Brannan of Shreveport, La., six grandchildren, Raleigh Bradford McBride, Todd Mounger McBride, Robert Pascal Taylor, Walter J. Powell, Pam Funderburg, and Becky Northam and thirteen great grandchildren.